Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. You walk with political steps on political ground.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKANo one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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